Apple WWDC17 Keynote on June 5th, 2017
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Michelle Obama is doing a fireside chat at WWDC on Tuesday.
Tim Cook on stage at #wwdc2017 recapping today's announcements.
Despite home-assistant features, Apple is pitching #HomePod as a music device.
Apple's #HomePod will not send anything to Apple's servers until you say "Hey Siri." Does so with an anonymous ID to protect privacy.
HomePod $349, starts shipping in December.
Apple's #HomePod will also allow you to control #HomeKit devices from your iOS devices remotely.
Apple's #HomePod will also be a Siri-powered home assistant. Will also control #HomeKit devices.
Things HomePod can do.
Phil Schiller says #HomePod won't require a list of specific commands to control music playback.
Siri commands for HomePod
Apple's #HomePod will seamlessly work with more than one unit.
Apple's #HomePod will be spacially-aware and be able to self-adjust to match the room it's in.
Spatial awareness means the speaker tunes itself for its placement in your room.
Spatial awareness means the speaker tunes itself for its placement in your room.
Apple's #HomePod is powered by Apple's own A8 ARM processor. Does real-time acoustic modeling, beam forming.
Apple's #HomePod is 7-inches tall. Has 7 tweeters, as rumored. These are "beam-formed" tweeters. 4-inch woofer.
Seeing a sneak-peek video for Apple's new HomePod. Not Siri Speaker.
"HomePod is going to reinvent music in our homes"
Phil Schiller's on stage to reinvent home music.
Breakthrough home speaker
Tim Cook moving to "One last thing" to go over, and it's about music. We're expecting Siri Speaker, or whatever Apple calls it.
It's time
We're getting an #iOS11 demo video now. We'll post it to TMO as soon as it hits YouTube.
#iOS11 is available to developers starting today. #wwdc2017
We're at 2 hours in this keynote with the 6th announcement still to come, and we've been on a blistering pace.
Apple is demoing Apple Pencil improvements on iPad Pro in #iOS111
iOS 11's task switcher
iOS 11 will give you a File viewer with support for iCloud and third party cloud storage services.
iOS 11's new Files app supports external services.
iOS 11 with iPad Pro allows you to flip keys to access other characters without switching keyboard.
iOS 11 will support drag-and-drop on iPad Pro.
You can pull an app out of the dock in iOS 11 on iPad Pro for multitasking split view.
iOS 11 is a "drag fest" ... or so they say.
Craig says iOS 11 is "biggest iOS update for iPad ever."
Craig is back on stage talking about iOS 11 features for the iPad.
iPad Pro models now start with 64GB of storage. Starts at $649 for 10.5-inch and $799 for 12.9-inch.
Order your new iPad Pro today
Apple's new #iPadPro 10.5-inch will have iPhone 7's camera.
New iPad Pro supports USB 3 speeds and fast charging.
Processor and graphics performance on #iPadPro 10.5-inch looks impressive.
New iPad Pro camera
iPad Pro sports the A10X CPU
Dynamically-adjustable refresh rate saves power
ProMotion doubles the effective refresh rate to 120Hz
Joz introducing a new iPad Pro that seems to match the features revealed by Ming-Chi Kuo.
Joz on stage to talk iPad Pro
Tim Cook is on announcement #5 of 6 at #wwdc2017.
And Tim Cook is back.
Craig is back on stage at #wwdc2017 talking about China-specific features.
iOS 11 features slide had "NFC Reader Mode" on it.
Wow, this is a cert impressive demo by Wingnut AR.
Wingnut AR's AR work is built on the Unreal engine. Alasdair is showing a very complex AR world live on stage at #wwdc2017
Alasdair Coull of Wingnut AR on stage to talk about Peter Jackson's new AR content. #wwdc2017
Craig says iOS 11 will be the largest AR platform in the world.
ARKit features
Craig is demostrating placing a cup of coffee on a table as an AR element.
iPhone ARKit demo
Craig moving on to AR and ARKit in #iOS11. In other words, AR is coming to iOS at the OS-level.
.#iOS11 will have VisionAPI for developers to tap into iOS's machine learning. It's all part of CoreML already mentioned by Dave.
Craig Federighi on stage talking about machine learning in #iOS11
CoreML
This keynote is on a blistering pace, and we're at 93 minutes. #wwdc2017
New App pages wil have demo videos, interactive tiles with reviews and other info. New tabs for Games, Apps, and others.
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New App Store: "tips and gameplay videos by editors." Presumably that means Apple is writing this content.
App Store will have a new App of the Day in the Today tab.
Phil Schiller: "Brand new App Store." Focus on discovery with "Today" tab.
Philk Schiller said the App Store has faster app review times now. He's also talking about phased releases for developers.
Phil Schiller is showing us a crowd of people in Hong Kong playing Pokemon Go.
180 billion downloads for the App Store. Amazing.
Apple Music now has 27 million paid subscribers. You can see what Friends are listening to in Apple Music, too.
MusicKit
AirPlay 2 gets multi-room audio and shared Up Next
Apple's Do Not Disturb mode in #iOS11 will allow you to designate people who can break through the Notification blocking.
Do Not Disturb. While driving.
Moving on to Maps in #iOS11 at #wwdc2017
Apple Pay's person-to-person payments will be built into iMessage in #iOS11. Should be good for Apple Pay and Apple.
Detailed floor plans to airports (and malls)
Siri will now be able to notice that interest in one area of iOS and offer you Apple News articles related to those interests.
Apple Pay in Messages.
Apple is using machine learning for Memories in iOS 11.
Lock screen and Notification Center are now merged.
New Control Center
Apple is building in significant under-the-hood improvements to how #iOS11 handles photos.
Apple is upping its game on making AI respect our privacy. This is good stuff.
With Siri's translation engine, I can't wait to see what they do with AirPods. Mic, speaker, connection to your iPhone: babelfish.
SiriKit works in many apps.
Apple Pay for person-to-person in iMessage.
New app drawer
Tim Cook channels Nigel Tufnel and turns it up to 11
Next up: iOS.
New iMac Pro. $4999 starting price. December target.
New iMac Pro
iMac Pro will have up to 22 teraflops of computational power.
MOAR RAM
Radeon Vega graphics.
iMac pro ships with 8, 10, or 18-core processor.
New iMac Pro will be the most powerful Mac ever
Sneak peek at new iMac Pro. #wwdc2017
MacBook Air is getting a processor bump, too. #wwdc2017
Moving on to MacBook Pro. As expected, this is a performance bump with Kaby Lake processors. Price drop on entry level MBP.
New Macs today. MacBook Air gets CPU update too.
Recapping new iMac hardware. Prices are dropping. a 4K iMac will start at $1,299.
New iMac recap
I'm so excited about Apple getting serious about #VR on Mac hardware. This is good stuff.
Star Wars VR content developed on a Mac is being demoed at #wwdc2017. It looks amazing.
John Knoll from Industrial Light & Magic is on stage at #wwdc2017 to talk about VR content with #epic's #Unreal VR engine.
Significant bumps in GPU performance in all iMacs at #wwdc2017
Brighter displays, 7th-generaition Intel Core Kaby Lake processors. Up to 64GB of memory on iMacs. #wwdc2017
We're getting an iMac update!!!!! Yes!! #wwdc2017
iMacs getting Kaby Lake processors.
Developers can access beta releases of #HighSierra today, Public beta coming later this summer.
Metal for VR! Apple is bringing serious VR support to #HighSierra, including #SteamVR, #Unity's VR engine, and more coming later.
Craig says Metal 2 in #HighSierra makes the most challenging graphics tasks "buttery smooth." 😍#wwdc2017
Metal 2 supports external graphics enclosures!
Craig is zipping through this presentation, speaking to how much Apple is packing into #wwdc2017. Squuuuueeeeeee!
Metal 2 offers 10x improvements over Metal 1
Apple adding H.265 support to #HighSierra in #APFS at #wwdc2017
Let's talk GPU
Holy crap, large-file duplication demo in #HighSierra was blindingly fast.
Impressive photo editing features being added to #HighSierra Photos app.
APFS will be new default file system for macOS High Sierra
Photos to link with external services
Facial recognition will be synced across your devices.
Photos will sync metadata. (Finally)
Mail will use 35% less storage
Intelligent tracking protection going to Safari. Not blocking ads, just privacy.
Craig says Safari on #HighSierra will be fastest browser in existence.
Safari getting Autoplay Blocking
macOS High Sierra: fully baked!
Tim called the Mac "the heart and soul of Apple." That's a deliberate comment rife with meaning. It's a message to developers and fans alike.
The Mac: the heart and soul of Apple
Nice, you can control music from within the Workout app in #AppleWatch and #watchOS4
New watchOS features for developers
Vera Carr is on stage demonstrating #AppleWatch and #watchOS
Significant improvement to music app on #AppleWatch
Kevin Lynch: "It's super easy to do multiple workouts in a single session."
watchOS 4 enhances NFC beyond Apple Pay: can be used to exchange data with gym equipment.
Apple is acting monthly challenges, bigger celebrations for daily goals, and other refinements of Activity app in #AppleWatch
Toy Story watch faces look wonderful. I want all of them. #AppleWatch
Beautiful Kaleidoscope watch face for #AppleWatch. It's just there to be pretty. 😍
Toy Story faces!
There will be a Siri Watch face! Yes! #AppleWatch #watchOS. It will have Siri-generated information based on location, time, etc.
Kevin Lynch takes the stage to introduce watchOS 4
New Siri watchface is your personal assistant dynamically updating your watchface.
Kevin Lynch is on stage for #AppleWatch. Starting with faces. Yay!
Moving on to #watchOS and #AppleWatch
Tim says Apple has a lot to talk about during this keynote! Yay! Says 6 announcements for today.
Amazon Prime Video coming later this year
Turning to tvOS, watchOS, macOS, iOS.
Number 1: tvOS
Apple also has an 82-year old developer who published her first app this year. That's great!
Lots of Operating Systems.
Tim says more student developers ever, including the youngest ever, a 10-year Aussie with 5 apps in the App Store.
Oldest and youngest app developers with apps on the App Store.
16 million registered developers, with 3 million added this year. 5,300 attendees at #wwdc, the most ever.
Tim promised that this will be the best and biggest WWDC ever.
5300 total developers
Tim says it's great to be back in San Jose. Says an awful lot has changed since Apple was here 15 years ago.
At least there's a big screen!
"Keep making apps. The world is depending on you." That's great! And Tim Cook is on stage.
Cute video depicting Apple's App Store servers going down. It's ridiculous in a great way.
Are we still booting up?
Currently playing is Whatever It Takes (Bachata Version) by Marco Lopetuso
FYI, @verso is agitating for a 50-Minute Stand Up Revolution. #WonderWoman has her all fired up.
Lights down. Let's go!
Things seem oddly delayed. Felt like we were going to start...and then went back to pre-show music.
Oh man, the music faded and I was all set to be wowed...and a new tune started.
Announcer says #wwdckeynote is about to start. Giddy up!
Feels like it's time!
Eagle-eyed @verso spotted the names Tim, Kevin, Vera, Craig, John, and Phil on the big mixing board at the #wwdckeynote
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To me, the animation playing on the WWDC screen is the living embodiment of accidental meetings at the heart of Apple Park and Pixar HQ designs.
I am drenched with anticipation for this keynote!
Seated and ready to roll!
Media registration is buzzing!
McEnery is ready. There are a handful of people in line as of 11:15pm PDT, but still plenty of opportunity available if you're willing. It's a beautiful night, folks!
Apple even decked out the nearby light rail stop.
Apple has set up an outdoor lounge area in front of McEnery. And the weather for the week looks gorgeous!
Jeff Gamet's on the ground with a few Sunday daytime pictures ahead of the conference. Here, developers hang out in front of McEnery.
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